samen Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 I just received UCSD admit with fellowship. Please help me to evaluate the quality of this program. More precisely, I should decline UCSD offer if receive an offer from which school (listed below)?
OR PhD or Bust Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Did anyone else apply to GA Tech? I got an email inviting them to their weekend today. Also, I got an interview with UMich but then didn't get invited to the weekend. One of the professors really liked me so something must have happened with the numbers.
M9arg3 Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Did anyone else apply to GA Tech? I got an email inviting them to their weekend today. Also, I got an interview with UMich but then didn't get invited to the weekend. One of the professors really liked me so something must have happened with the numbers. I have applied to GA Tech but have not received an invitation yet !! When is their weekend ?
r_a_i_n Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Did anyone else apply to GA Tech? I got an email inviting them to their weekend today. Also, I got an interview with UMich but then didn't get invited to the weekend. One of the professors really liked me so something must have happened with the numbers. I received an email from GA Tech earlier today for their visit weekend (March 7th). Super excited!!!
CarpeDiem Posted February 15, 2014 Posted February 15, 2014 I received an email from GA Tech earlier today for their visit weekend (March 7th). Super excited!!! I also applied for the GA Tech industrial engineering program but I didn't get any message from GA Tech. I checked my application status and it still shows "to dept for review." Could you let me know your application status?? (if it is not "to dept for review")
Foolhardy Posted February 15, 2014 Posted February 15, 2014 I just received UCSD admit with fellowship. Please help me to evaluate the quality of this program. More precisely, I should decline UCSD offer if receive an offer from which school (listed below)? Congrats! this is great, you nailed it!...it actually depends on your career goals..to be a professor, you'd better stick to your management school offers...to get into industry, engineering sounds better...anyway, based on your options, only UCLA and Berkeley would beat UCSD! one more thing...San Diego is one of the most beautiful cities in the whole US!
r_a_i_n Posted February 15, 2014 Posted February 15, 2014 I also applied for the GA Tech industrial engineering program but I didn't get any message from GA Tech. I checked my application status and it still shows "to dept for review." Could you let me know your application status?? (if it is not "to dept for review") Mine still says "to dept for review"
brugaltheelder Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 I'm a current student at Michigan. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the visit weekend for those curious about the process.
brugaltheelder Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 what's the weekend for? It's a mix of recruitment and interviews. Potential students will be meeting with professors and students for two days. The first day has individual meetings with faculty with similar research interests. They're really looking for good matches between students and faculty. If there isn't a match for a student, then there's a lower chance that student will get an offer. If a professor says "I want to work with you" and you say "I want to work with you", then the chances of getting an offer are much higher. Over the days the students are here, there are socials with the current students (and sometimes faculty) as well (hockey game, nice dinner, house party, bar night). The current students are more on the recruitment side of things. We try to give an accurate depiction of the departmental vibe/student life/etc. There isn't any "trick a student into coming here". If a student says "I want to work with X at university Y, I have an offer, and X wants to work with me" (with Y != Michigan), then we encourage them to do that. Some advice for people going to visit weekends: Meet the potential students for people you may want to keep in contact with. They're going to be your peers when in school and your competition when applying for jobs. Also, having outside-your-department friends is great at conference as academic networking is sadly an important aspect of the culture (and cross-school conference pub nights are pretty fun). Even if you don't drink, go to the evening social events with students. Be honest about your research interests, thoughts for your future, and what you want out of a program. Saying what you think they want to hear (vs. the truth) will only hurt you in the long run. We had a student who misrepresented himself during the weekend. He ended up not having similar research interests or as vigorous a mathematical background as he had proclaimed. He didn't make it through the qualifying exam process. I don't mean to scare any of you, just be honest. If Michigan (or whatever school you're visiting) is your first choice, let the person you want to work with know. Read faculty web pages before the visit. Have a good idea which ones you might want to work with so you can spend time talking with them. On the Michigan visit, I can't remember if you know which faculty you're meeting on the first day before you arrive or after you get to the hotel the first evening. Either way, read those faculty web pages in detail, look at where they're placing students, and have questions. They'll try to talk to you about their research, but the interaction goes smoother if you can ask some engaging questions. Anyway, I need to go participate in an ergo experiment (beer money). nubswitstubs and kalmamad 2
nubswitstubs Posted February 19, 2014 Posted February 19, 2014 Hi, has anyone heard back from Cornell Ph.D program in O.R.? Thanks A wave of decisions were released today.
butler3 Posted February 19, 2014 Posted February 19, 2014 A wave of decisions were released today. Congrats for ORIE!!!!!!tough time coming for you after MIT decision...any inclinations ???
TOApplicant Posted February 19, 2014 Posted February 19, 2014 Congrats, earlier today I received an email about them receiving my gre scores(from the secretary) but did not hear anything after that I guess it is a rejection.
OR PhD or Bust Posted February 19, 2014 Posted February 19, 2014 I also applied for the GA Tech industrial engineering program but I didn't get any message from GA Tech. I checked my application status and it still shows "to dept for review." Could you let me know your application status?? (if it is not "to dept for review") Yes mine also still says "to dept for review"
nubswitstubs Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Congrats for ORIE!!!!!!tough time coming for you after MIT decision...any inclinations ??? Thanks :] No idea at the moment. Hopefully school visits will help make the decision easier. Do you have any opinions?
nubswitstubs Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Congrats, earlier today I received an email about them receiving my gre scores(from the secretary) but did not hear anything after that I guess it is a rejection. They might not be done sending acceptances yet, so don't lose hope! I don't think it's uncommon for schools to send acceptances in multiple waves.
butler3 Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Thanks :] No idea at the moment. Hopefully school visits will help make the decision easier. Do you have any opinions? MIT will be clincher no doubt.otherwise it will be a tough but sweet dilemma..keep posting!!!!
CarpeDiem Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Hey guys, What about Berkeley IEOR??? I know that berkeley sent out (perhaps two rounds) admissions; but there's no one who gets rejection. Is this a sign that there is still a chance to get an admission from berkeley?
samen Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Hey guys, What about Berkeley IEOR??? I know that berkeley sent out (perhaps two rounds) admissions; but there's no one who gets rejection. Is this a sign that there is still a chance to get an admission from berkeley? I am wondering about this too but I am not very optimistic!
samen Posted February 23, 2014 Posted February 23, 2014 Well, finally I received my rejection from Berkeley, but receiving a rejection from Florida was not very expected! Given the other offers I would decline U of Florida offer anyway but receiving their rejection letter was not heartening!
M9arg3 Posted February 23, 2014 Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) Well, finally I received my rejection from Berkeley, but receiving a rejection from Florida was not very expected! Given the other offers I would decline U of Florida offer anyway but receiving their rejection letter was not heartening! I have not heard from them yet !! Shall we email them to check our status ? Honestly , i have heard that they have a decent to strong operation research department but you already had great offers buddy Edited February 23, 2014 by M9arg3
r_a_i_n Posted February 23, 2014 Posted February 23, 2014 Hey guys, does anyone know anything about Georgia Tech? According to stats from previous years, they should have already started sending rejections/ acceptances...
nubswitstubs Posted February 23, 2014 Posted February 23, 2014 Hey guys, does anyone know anything about Georgia Tech? According to stats from previous years, they should have already started sending rejections/ acceptances... I'd guess that getting invited to the visit is probably the best possible response you could have from them so far, especially since nobody has posted any rejections/acceptances yet. Good job!
kalmamad Posted February 23, 2014 Posted February 23, 2014 Hey everyone. I know here there are people with strong records targeting very prestigious universities and programs... They make this forum very interesting. However, currently I want to ask about Industrial and Systems Engineering program of the Rutgers University. I want to ask about admitted people what they are doing now. Has anyone been awarded fellowship? How can we get RA? They say we have to wait for their TAship decision but I think we have better contact faculty for RA positions... Any idea? Thanks.
samen Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 I have not heard from them yet !! Shall we email them to check our status ? Honestly , i have heard that they have a decent to strong operation research department but you already had great offers buddy Yes, but email to this address: richard@ise.ufl.edu He told me that I will be rejected and that was true!
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